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WASHB CARDS.

No. 585,824. Patented July 6, 1897.

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NrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARSHALL B. LLOYD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THE VIIITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WASHBOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,824, dated July 6, 1897. Application filed August 19, 1895. Serial No. 569,762. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, MARSHALL B. LLOYD, of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Surface Material for 'Washboarda of which the following is a specification.

'My invention relates tol a new surface material for washboards; and the object of my invention is to provide means whereby the ordinary zinc surface may be dispensed with and a material having a great number of meshes or openings substituted therefor, whereby the water and suds will be retained for a longer time upon the board.

To this end my invention consists in material for washboard-surfaces of the form or construction hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying'drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which-` Figure l is a front view of a washboard embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of a section of the surface fabric. Fig. 4 is an Fig. 5 is a view showing the ends of the wire. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the end of a loose fabric from which the finished fabric is formed by pressing the coils together. Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. 5, showing the transverse wires that may be employed for holding the wires formingthe fabric closely together laterally.

The frame of the Washboard may be of any desired construction, the top and bottom rails 2 and 3 being employed with grooved side pieces 4t to hold the fabric 5. This fabric is made up of a large number of coils of wire, and the preferred construction of the fabric is that indicated in the drawings, the same comprising a series of parallel coils 6, interlocked with one anothersuccessively, the fabric so constituted being compressed laterally to force the coils close upon one another. An almost solid body of wire is thus formed, with the exception that between the highest and lowest points of the ridges and grooves, respectively, there are a large number of small openings 7. In forcing the coils together laterally adjacent coils'will assume slightly different longitudinal positions. The

result of this, as shown in Fig. 4, is the formation of two small ridges S at the top of each of the main corrugations. This fabric is provided with `alternate deep and shallow grooves or corrugations which aidV materially in washing.

It is obvious that any wire fabric or arrangement of coils may be employed as a surface for the board, and I therefore do not restrict my invention to the particular form of fabric herein shown and described. In any of the wire fabrics which may be employed various means may be provided, if desired, to secure the middle of the fabric ,upon the board.V Cross-wires 10 may be employed, as shown in Fig. 7, or the Wires may be secured by solder at various points, ora fastening may be effected by means of staples. In place of such a fastening the wires may be secured by galvanizing the same.

The fabric may, if desired, be employed for other purposes than that described, but

is particularly designed for washboards.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenty l. The combination of the washboard-frame with a transversely-corrugated washing-surface therefor, comprising a series of coiled or crimped wires arranged longitudinally upon said frame, said wires being pressed together laterally or transversely of the coils and suitably fastened, substantially as described.

2. A washboard fabric comprising a series of coils interlocked and pressed or collapsed together laterally of the coils, adjacent coils occupying different longitudinal positions whereby alternately deep and shallow grooves or corrugations are formed, and means for fastening the coils together in the collapsed condition.

3. Awashboard fabric, comprisinga series of coils interlocked and pressed or collapsed together, laterally of the coils, and means for fastening the coils together in the collapsed condition, for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of August, A. D. 1895.

MARSHALL B. LLOYD.

In presence of-q C. G. HAWLEY,

F. S. LYON. 

